parkrun thread
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7 Sep
5:27pm, 7 Sep 2024
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Son of a Pronator Man
I have a friend who runs parkrun under a pseudonym. It’s obviously a fake name which anyone who looked at the results would know was intended as a piss-take. So I assume no o e ever checks these things.
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7 Sep
5:39pm, 7 Sep 2024
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Spideog
BaronessBL wrote: I wonder what people who have been in prison and got involved with parkrun and want to continue do. I know prisons use town and city names as surnames so on our local prison results all the surnames are names of local places. But I don't know if each prison has say 50 barcodes of names like that so the person who is Freddy Ipswich this week might have been released in a month's time but someone else uses that bar code. And what if you got to 99 parkruns in prison and were then released - do you start again under your own name at 1, which seems a bit unfair! I don't know what the process actually is, but years ago they claimed there was a process to deal with that so that former residents could keep their stats, but with some anonymity about the exactly where they used to run. |
7 Sep
10:47pm, 7 Sep 2024
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Cerrertonia
I know of a couple of people who sadly don't run under their real name because they don't want a stalkerish ex knowing roughly where they live and/or knowing where they're likely to be on a Saturday morning. And I know of adopted siblings who can't run under their (relatively unusual) first names because it would make it easy for birth parents to find them. I'm really quite surprised that parkrun hasn't been under a bit more pressure to allow people to opt out of public results. I suppose the practice of not using your actual name completely avoids the possibility of things leaking accidentally though. |
7 Sep
11:17pm, 7 Sep 2024
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Meep Meep
To be fair though, the best way for a person who doesn't want to be stalked to act is not to choose to stick their real name on a massive global website. If Jason Bourne was after me, I probably wouldn't be signing up for Parkrun. |
8 Sep
1:36am, 8 Sep 2024
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JamieKai *chameleon*
Indeed. But if someone's relationship went south and turned violent after they had signed up and been running, that gets a little murkier. Sometimes abusive bastards start off being awfully charming blokes.
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8 Sep
8:13am, 8 Sep 2024
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
JamieKai *chameleon* wrote: parkrun will change names on request in that sort of circumstance, but a new identity might be safer.
Indeed. But if someone's relationship went south and turned violent after they had signed up and been running, that gets a little murkier. Sometimes abusive bastards start off being awfully charming blokes. |
8 Sep
8:40am, 8 Sep 2024
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Fields
It’s also a fact that you aren’t always aware of a stalker until it’s too late A “name supplied” function wouldn’t hurt I suppose |
9 Sep
10:05am, 9 Sep 2024
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JJJ
I think ex-prisoners keep their barcode but have their name changed, and presumably the location of their runs changed. At my event we've deleted results for people who have offensive names - we had someone who obviously thought it was funny to have F****er in his name, we mailed him and told him to change it so he registered again with a slightly less, but still offensive name, he registered, we deleted etc - this went on for about 8 laps, I guess he got bored with it then. There isn't a check that you're name is real and with particularly with non English names it's impossible for English speakers to know, all names would have to be reviewed by people who spoke all languages to check which isn't practical! |
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9 Sep
11:30am, 9 Sep 2024
311 posts
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JJJ
PS Pseudonyms are fine until someone volunteers as John Smith and we can't find them in the database and have to mail and ask them and they say Oh! I'm Bill Jones in parkrun world. Grr!
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9 Sep
12:16pm, 9 Sep 2024
103 posts
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Meep Meep
I do like the emails we get sometimes that say, "Put me down for timekeeping this week." And they don't leave a name, or barcode, and their email address is chunkythorfan111@gmail.com. |
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